Turkmenistan's Capital Named World's 'White-Marble' City

The Turkmen Health Ministry

Turkmen State University

A row of white-marble apartment buildings

One of seven public buildings recently built in Ashgabat

The Hotel Oguzkent in Ashgabat

The National Press Building

A new building is dedicated for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' university in 2011.

President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov attends an inauguration ceremony for the presidential palace complex in Ashgabat in 2011.

The Palace of Happiness marriage registry office

An imam issues the call to prayer from the marble minaret of a mosque.